HHS secretary says schools shouldn't 'hide behind' CDC virus guidance

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Source: American Independent



By Dan Desai Martin -July 7, 2020 4:50 PM

Alex Azar downplayed agency guidance this week meant to keep schools safe for students and teachers.

Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Tuesday that state and local leaders should not let coronavirus safety guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stop them from fully reopening schools this fall.

"Our CDC guidance is guidance. When it comes to reopening our schools, nobody should hide behind CDC's guidance to not reopen schools," Azar said at a White House event to discuss the topic.

"Our guidance is to enable and empower the reopening of schools and physical attendance by our kids," he added.

The CDC's guidance for schools is focused on ways to slow the spread of coronavirus, and notes that it is not meant to be used in place of local, state, or federal dictates.

https://americanindependent.com/alex-azar-coronavirus-schools-cdc-guidance-donald-trump-hhs-pandemic-covid-19/

Read more: https://americanindependent.com/alex-azar-coronavirus-schools-cdc-guidance-donald-trump-hhs-pandemic-covid-19/

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So what are the guidance then asshole, Oh I know pass the libertarian buck and don't take any responsibility...................why do you get a pay check again, you failed the kids at the border and in Porto Rico,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[elleng]

1. Covering his a**, enabling students (+ teachers,staff) to become sick.

[MLAA]

2. This asshole

He is not offering Health or Service and he sure as hell isn’t HUMAN

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. mass murderer

[TeamPooka]

4. Fucking Azzhole.

[groundloop]

5. WHAT A FUCKING ASSHOLE. IT'S ALL ABOUT APPEARANCES, TO HELL WITH TEACHERS AND STUDENTS !!!!!!!

[yankee87]

6. Guinea Pigs

Thankfully I have no school; With younger and younger people getting this. I would be scared.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. So actually observing safety regulations is somehow "hiding" behind them?

What an idiot.

[aggiesal]

9. Complete moron ...

What are they supposed to hide behind?
Maybe Pendejo45's big a$$!

I know that asking too much from our teachers and staff.

[liberalmuse]

8. So now they want to sacrifice children AND the elderly for the economy.

These f*cks all need to rot in prison.

[erronis]

10. What's that stuffed suit behind azar? The taxidermist should be fired.

[HotTeaBag]

11. I wonder if Barron will be attending school in September.

Nah.

[J_William_Ryan]

12. The reprehensible right.

Needless to say, this is Trump playing politics with the lives of our children.

If schools aren’t open parents can’t go to work.

If parents can’t go to work the economy suffers.

If the economy suffers unemployment will remain high.

High unemployment jeopardizes Trump’s reelection bid.

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

13. Who cares about millions of kids? They don't vote.

Obviously the Dumpster doesn't care about kids who can't vote.

Obviously Azar doesn't care about kids who can't vote.

NEWS FLASH, Donnie Dumpster: Their parents and grandparents can and WiLL vote.

[JudyM]

14. So messed up. Clown car that's running over masses of people.

[Garion_55]

15. Is he saying that it's okay not to follow the guidelines?

Here is the guideline to safely opening your school. But what if I don't follow the guideline should I still open the school? Osure go ahead who cares

[Igel]

17. Guidelines have no penalty.

They aren't tailored for a lot of different situations.

"local, state, or federal dictates" might be--but they're going to be open ended.

My school district is working out its own policies since the ed agency in-state gave it guidance, as well. Which was mostly the CDCs, but with state, not CDC, authority behind it.

If the CDC gives guidance, who's going to enforce it?

[NCjack]

16. I suspect that Loser-#45 doesn't care about children being educated. So, why

is he pressing on opening schools while infections are rising, uncontrolled? It has to be some advantage to him for the election. See, the schools are open -- now, let's pump the stockmarket (so we can dump it after the election).

[pfitz59]

18. Why the full-court press to re-open schools?

Trump is really pushing it.

[Garion_55]

20. Government assistance runs out soon from the stimulus package

If your kids are in school then obviously it's safe to go back to work so let's get the economy running before all the stimulus package money Runs Out in a month and Mitch McConnell has to pass a whole nother huge package that he doesn't want to do

[appalachiablue]

19. Many big, new initiatives rolled out today. desperation.

[noneof_theabove]

21. A plan that still fails

I was talking with a friend and their district [S Texas] was looking [before the we took 1st wave tsunami]
of doing 1/2 class Mon/Wed other 1/2 Tue/Thu.

Well, Well, Well let's count the fails

1) kids will be kids and sit there all without playing with including but limited to removal of their mask
2) .....same as #1 but for others mask
3) CV-19 can make it to next day unless EVERY SURFACE of the school is thoroughly disinfected.
4) Being shown that large particle discharge may be caught by a quality mask but NOT the small particle that hang in the air for an extended time.
5) kids will touch and share and rub their eyes.....not good

RETHUGS DON'T CARE....KIDS CAN NOT VOTE.

[CRK7376]

22. Please come show me how

that's done in my Title 1 high school. I'll let you teach in my history classroom or better yet you can teach our kids a thing or two about how government works....in our Civics class.